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From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Shared Printers
Message-ID: <21853@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 23 May 91 21:10:58 GMT
References: <91143.090125JIW2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <91143.090125JIW2@psuvm.psu.edu> JIW2@psuvm.psu.edu writes:
> 
>  All of this recent discussion of printer sharing between VMS and
> Ultrix machines brings up a related problem of my own:  At our
> site, we have both a VAXstation 3100 and DECstation 3100, sharing
> a printer via LAT through a DECserver 200.  Our problem is that
> if the two machines try to print at the same time, one of the print
> jobs gets aborted.  In fact, if the Ultrix machine is in the midst
> of printing a file and someone submits a job from VMS, the Ultrix
> job is lost completely.  What's wrong with this picture?

Do you have the print queueing enabled on the server for that port?
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